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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w27922
来源ID	Working Paper 27922
	The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts
	Emmanuel Saez; Gabriel Zucman
发表日期	2020-10-12
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	This paper studies inequality in America through the lens of distributional macroeconomic accounts—comprehensive distributions of the aggregate amount of income and wealth recorded in the official macroeconomic accounts of the United States. We use these distributional macroeconomic accounts to quantify the rise of income and wealth concentration since the late 1970s, the change in tax progressivity, and the direct redistributive effects of government intervention in the economy. Between 1978 and 2018, the share of pre-tax income earned by the top 1% rose from 10% to about 19% and the share of wealth owned by the top 0.1% rose from 7% to about 18%. In 2018, the tax system was regressive at the top end; the top 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower average tax rate than the macroeconomic tax rate of 29%. We confront our methods and findings with those of other studies, pinpoint the areas where more research is needed, and describe how additional data collection could improve inequality measurement.
主题	Microeconomics ; Market Structure and Distribution ; Public Economics ; Taxation
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w27922
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585596
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Emmanuel Saez,Gabriel Zucman. The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts. 2020.

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